Well, retail sales have been bouncing a bit recently, which is mostly due to a weak pound. Otherwise, everything's still getting worse, but this 'worse' is better than people's expectations, which were rather dire.

Things may stop getting worse, with small increases in GDP before the election, but afterwards government expenditure which is 50% of gdp will be cut 10-20%. So add -5% to the decrease in the private sector GDP, estimated at -4.5% this year and -1.8% last year, and we are technically in a depression, -10% gdp but it may be a w recession instead.